Time to Outlaw 'Transplant Tourism'
Time to Outlaw ‘Transplant Tourism’ Commentary The black market in human organs for transplantation is one of the worst ongoing human rights abuses in the world today. But here’s the problem: Many decry organ trafficking, but few do anything about it. Until now. The Canadian Senate committee just passed S 204, a bill that would make traveling overseas to purchase organs for transplantation a felony. Specifically, the bill would punish for a crime everyone who: “obtains an organ to be transplanted into their body or into the body of another person, knowing that the person from whom it ...